At our Homemakers Extension Office we had a summer project teaching kiddies to sew. We started with sitting them at a sewing machine teaching them the parts of the machine and how to thread it. Then had straright lines drawn on paper and without thread had them "sew" on the lines, progressed to circles and then free motion. After a this session we gave them a certificate and they loved it when... we signed the certificates to take home to their parents. The children ranged from 4 yrs (yep, 4) to teenage and included boys. I loved helping teach them. At the end of a week they had sewn in zippers, made aprons, strip pieced handbags and even a dufffle bag plus a few did their own designed items. For me, it was so much fun!